The Positive And Negative Effects Of Surgical Drain Management

By Aimee Schwartz


There are many types of medical surgeries done for the benefit of patients with different types of diseases, illnesses, or injuries. Aside from the human hands of medical practitioners, tools, equipment, and clinical systems aid in the medication or surgical processes. Such processes need to be done meticulously and professionally because lives depend on these.

Either mere examinations or intensive surgeries need tools and systems to help make the process more accurate and to achieve better results. Surgical drain management is one of the functions of both professionals and systems working together. Surgical drains are used to take away all the excess air and fluids from the body of the patient.

For the benefits, it helps in the accumulation of anastomotic leakage. This happens when there are too many fluids like blood, drains, and air in the body part of where surgery was performed. Other procedures where the system can be used are orthopedic processes, plastic surgery including breast augmentation, chest drainage, cyst surgeries, neurosurgery, catheter attachments, and a lot more.

There are different types of drains. It can be active or passive, silastic or rubber, open or closed. The active ones maintain high or low suction pressures, while the passive ones have no suction and rely on pressure in the exterior and the body. Silastic is inert while rubber forms a tract. Finally, open uses a stoma bag or a drain pad while the closed uses bottles for the drains.

The system is removed only when it reaches around twenty five milliliters per day. Also, it can be totally removed by the time the wound heals. But it is also necessary to take out two centimeters a day of the drain. This gradual removal will be until they are sure that the wound will no longer cause infections. But the postoperative areas take longer which is about a week before removal.

In order to exercise palliative care, medical practitioners should pull, stop, or remove the drain carefully because this could be painful in the part of the patient. That is why they need to take pain relievers whenever possible. After the removal, the nurse will clean the part dry and will give advice on how to take care of the healing wound to avoid infection.

The drawback to the system is that when it is not removed at a certain time, it can be very difficult to do it because it will stick into the wound and the pressure will prevent it from being taken away. And if it is removed even if the wound has not been healed yet, the patient may get infections.

Operations in the gastrointestinal systems do not imply the use of drains because it can pose a threat to the patient. This is a sensitive part and it is much safer without this equipment. If the mechanical pressure is not properly controlled, there could be complications.

As much as possible, there should be no errors in performing operations using the system of drains. These are helpful in some surgical operations but may pose a threat to other types of sensitive procedures. Hence, palliative care must be observed all of the time.




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